Willows
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Used in constructing booths at the feast of tabernacles (Lev_23:40). Spring up along watercourses. Spiritually it is thus made manifest to us that in using the means of grace the believer thrives (Isa_44:4). The Jewish captives in Babylon hung their harps on the weeping willow along the Euphrates. The Salix alba, viminalis (osier), and Egyptiaca are all found in Bible lands. Before the date of the Babylonian captivity the willow was associated with joy, after it with sorrow, probably owing to Psalm 137. Babylonia was a network of canals, and would therefore abound in willows.
The Jews generally had their places of prayer by the river side (Act_16:13) for the sake of ablution before prayer; the sad love streams, inasmuch as being by their murmuring congenial to melancholy and imaging floods of tears (Lam_2:18; Lam_3:48; Jer_9:1). Tear bottles are often found in the ancient tombs, and referred to in old inscriptions. The willow of Babylon has long, pointed, lance-shaped leaves, and finely serrated, smooth, slender, drooping branches. Vernon, a merchant at Aleppo, first introduced it in England at Twickenham park where P. Collinson saw it growing 1748. Another tradition makes Pope to have raised the first specimen from green twigs of a basket sent to Lady Suffolk from Spain (Linnaean Transactions, 10:275).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Willows. Willows are mentioned in Lev_23:40; Job_40:22; Psa_137:2; Isa_44:4. With respect to the tree upon which the captive Israelites hung their harps, there can be no doubt that the weeping willow, Salix babylonica, is intended. This tree grows abundantly on the banks of the Euphrates, in other parts of Asia as in Palestine.
The Hebrew word translated willows is generic, and includes several species of the large family of Salices, which is well represented in Palestine and the Bible lands, such as the Salix alba, Salix viminalis (osier), Salix aegyptiaca.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
wil?ōz (ערבים, ‛ărābhı̄m); ἰτέα, itéa (Lev_23:40; Job_40:22; Psa_137:2; Isa_15:7; Isa_44:4)): In all references this tree is mentioned as beside running water. They may all refer to the willow, two varieties of which, Salix fragilis and S. alba, occur commonly in Palestine, or to the closely allied Populus euphratus (also Natural Order Salicaceae), which is even more plentiful, especially on the Jordan and its tributaries. The Brook of the Willows (Isa_15:7) must have been some stream running from Moab to the Jordan or Dead Sea. Popular fancy has associated the willows of Psa_137:2 with the so-called ?weeping willow? (Salix babylonica), but though this tree is found today in Palestine, it is an introduction from Japan and cannot have existed ?by the waters of Babylon? at the time of the captivity.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
The Jews generally had their places of prayer by the river side (Act_16:13) for the sake of ablution before prayer; the sad love streams, inasmuch as being by their murmuring congenial to melancholy and imaging floods of tears (Lam_2:18; Lam_3:48; Jer_9:1). Tear bottles are often found in the ancient tombs, and referred to in old inscriptions. The willow of Babylon has long, pointed, lance-shaped leaves, and finely serrated, smooth, slender, drooping branches. Vernon, a merchant at Aleppo, first introduced it in England at Twickenham park where P. Collinson saw it growing 1748. Another tradition makes Pope to have raised the first specimen from green twigs of a basket sent to Lady Suffolk from Spain (Linnaean Transactions, 10:275).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Willows. Willows are mentioned in Lev_23:40; Job_40:22; Psa_137:2; Isa_44:4. With respect to the tree upon which the captive Israelites hung their harps, there can be no doubt that the weeping willow, Salix babylonica, is intended. This tree grows abundantly on the banks of the Euphrates, in other parts of Asia as in Palestine.
The Hebrew word translated willows is generic, and includes several species of the large family of Salices, which is well represented in Palestine and the Bible lands, such as the Salix alba, Salix viminalis (osier), Salix aegyptiaca.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
wil?ōz (ערבים, ‛ărābhı̄m); ἰτέα, itéa (Lev_23:40; Job_40:22; Psa_137:2; Isa_15:7; Isa_44:4)): In all references this tree is mentioned as beside running water. They may all refer to the willow, two varieties of which, Salix fragilis and S. alba, occur commonly in Palestine, or to the closely allied Populus euphratus (also Natural Order Salicaceae), which is even more plentiful, especially on the Jordan and its tributaries. The Brook of the Willows (Isa_15:7) must have been some stream running from Moab to the Jordan or Dead Sea. Popular fancy has associated the willows of Psa_137:2 with the so-called ?weeping willow? (Salix babylonica), but though this tree is found today in Palestine, it is an introduction from Japan and cannot have existed ?by the waters of Babylon? at the time of the captivity.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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